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Yes, but freed from the concerns about quarterly profits or especially stock prices, indie games (and music, etc.) is often more...

For the most part, though, those games stopped coming out around the time of Vampire: The Masquerade. So folks who "played other games"...

I suspect I don't really disagree with you here. I was mostly addressing some corner-cases.

The current approach seems to be for third parties to do things that evoke SR without actually being it. There were two of those that...

Other than reversing the die roll, how is that any different than having a skill with specialty mechanics? (Especially since you need...

That actually largely changed as of 5e (maybe 4e too) because it became usually impossible to do important hacking remotely, so the...

A take-10 style mechanic can, indeed, handle much of this problem as long as two things are true: 1. People set difficulties with the...

Or even if you make it much simpler, as elements of the complexity may make it more valuable to some of the prior fanbase. Its...

I don't agree about perception, but then you probably already know that. I think there are a few cases where information is obscure and...

I realized one of the reasons I had trouble answering this question is that, even with games I returned to, its been very rare for me to...

Another for the PF1 pile. I want 3E/PF1 but with bounded accuracy. 5E really isnt it tho. PF1 has incredible character customization...

I’m an unabashed HEROphile, and while I purchased the stuff subsequent to 4Ed, it was the last edition to get serious gameplay. So I’d...

That can be tricky, too. I find myself spending a lot of time researching websites and authors.

As someone said, its essentially an impossible task. Some of the people who love the concept and setting want something much leaner...